Odevity or parity
[This is a guest post by Jeffrey Shallit]
A Chinese student here at Waterloo used the term "odevity" for what English-speaking computer scientists typically call "parity" — the property of an integer being odd or even.
I had never heard this term before, so I used Google Scholar to look at where it is being used. It is used almost exclusively by Chinese engineers, mathematicians, and computer scientists. The first usage I was able to find with Google Book Search was in 1972, obtained with this search.
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